A New Slideshow Is Coming

[Gothick]

Wow, I loved Briscoe with the longer hair! Adorable!

But sad to think of how close to devastating personal collapse he was at this point in his life...

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[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the capture:

It's unfortunate that we never really got to see 1970PT's Chris Collins fully develop. 

[Gothick]

The capture that was posted during the day on Tuesday was really quite delightful.  You didn't need a caption to see that Mrs. Johnson thoroughly disapproved of Jason Maguire from the get-go.

It doesn't get much better than Clarice Blackburn and Dennis Patrick... one of the many marvelous moments from the first year of DS, as was discussed recently in another thread.  In many ways year one was the absolute pinnacle for the series--certainly insofar as the skillful management of dramatic tension and subtle unfolding of characterizations and plotlines goes...

G.

[Gothick]

I just love Grayson's look as Julia in today's photograph.  Such understated, distinctive glamour.

G.

[Midnite]

Wow, she looks gorgeous!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Indeed she does:

[michael c]

today's "current talk" slideshow features the famous(in my mind at least) "lemon or cream" scene. a personal favorite...

just two refined young ladies taking tea with bows in their hair and white kid gloves.

by 1968 the show was going off the deep end plotwise with monsters literally coming out of the woodwork and the original,human characters relegated to the sidelines.

however scenes like this were a reminder that at it's core was an upper class family and their friends and servants. it gave the rest of the madness a much needed dose of respectability that was an integral part of the show's tone and sensibility.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I love that scene, too:

And thankfully such scenes weren't entirely abandoned as there was a scene in a similar vein recently in the Watching Project:

958 - ... Julia sits on the drawing room sofa having coffee with Quentin, explaining...

Sadly, though, there was no bow in Julia's hair. 

[Gothick]

Julia and Quentin both look as if they're recovering from the most deadly hangovers. And is Julia guzzling that coffee, or what?

That "lemon or cream" scene between the two young misses of Collinwood is priceless.  I love the slumber party sequence at Maggie's a little later on in that storyline, too.

G.

[Midnite]

Sadly, though, there was no bow in Julia's hair. 

Ha!  Or in Quentin's.   

[Gothick]

What an odd capture of Barnabas today.  He looks like Mr Rogers about to tell a story to the kids about his own special neighborhood... heh, heh.

I call this the "pointless" look because of what's going on--or rather, not going on--with the hair...

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Sometimes you completely forget that Barnabas didn't always have his "points." 

Although, if you look closely, maybe it was that they were just starting to grow in. 

[michael c]

i've said this many times before but i always enjoy scenes between alexandra and kathryn.

they seem like real friends to me. there are the "slumber party" episodes from around this same time period that are personal favorites as well.

[Julia99]

"Peevish" 

pee·vish
   /ˈpivɪʃ/ Show Spelled[pee-vish]
–adjective
1. cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
2. showing annoyance, irritation, or bad mood: a peevish reply; a peevish frown.
3. perverse or obstinate.

Ironic that Mr. Peevish would use the world for Dr. "Peevish?" (she said in an irritated, I guess further peevish tone)

[Gothick]

Ironic indeed.  What he really meant was how glass-cuttingly astute she was being in refusing to buy into his "alas, poor Willie" act and instead throwing his real motives back in his face.  Grand stuff.  I'm still not sure just why she caved, on this particular occasion, except for the fact that the writers needed Willie back in the OH (and we fans rejoiced indeed at John Karlen's return!).

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